In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start.

And I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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But we begin today with a writer heralded by the New York Times as one of the with the perennial favourite pride and prejudice.

But we begin today with a writer heralded by the New York Times as one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction.

After reading his latest collection of stories, I can assure you this is far from hyperbole.

Daniel Mason combines his day job as a psychiatrist at Stanford University

with a writing career that began age 26 when he published the piano tuner to enormous acclaim

while still at medical school.

His most recent novel, The Winter Soldier, told the story of a young medical student

who discovers both love and horror in the field hospitals of Poland

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